Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered with the Committee and his aids and was ushered to a seat just beneath the rostrum...
...principal object of art in some extremely decorative snapshots of musical-comedy France. The comedian seems a bit less springy than formerly, for constant falls have not taken the jar off his spine. But he is as potent as ever in his tipsy dizziness, his skittish gallop. Beneath its bald dome, his elastic face is still fluent with its infantile grimaces...
...even when these points--which are after all pretty simple--have been considered, one has hardly got beneath the surface. What are these subjects supposed to do for a man? What have they done for the men of your acquaintance who have gone farthest in them? What territory do they cover? If each were summed up in a single volume, what would be the chapter headings of that volume? (For some of those chapter headings will be the titles of the courses you will take if you concentrate there). Above all, what sort of a "view of life" does each...
...wisdom. But he is one of a group which tends to regard the Rank List in more or less the same way they regard the Roll of Honor of the Great War's dead; the names on it are to be respected, but not too greatly envied. Beneath these mixed feelings the cause will be suggested by an analysis of the list...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...